orbiting gem rings in p5.js WEBGL — sapphire, ruby, emerald, topaz, opal (shifts color per particle)
live: smrghsh.github.io/diamonds-and-sapphires
creative coder
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Samir Ghosh
@vertexshader
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phd student researching virtual reality for scientific work
creative coder
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
creative coder
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
In this substack I tell the story of how I pushed the limits of VR to render coral gaussian splats and share a link— (please close it when you’re done 🙏🏽)
https://vertexshader.substack.com/p/glitchy-coral-reefs-in-a-quirky-gaussian?r=av17d
My friend mapped/analyzed RYR1 for her bioinformatics MS—this huge muscle protein that breaks a lot of tooling. So I tried to turn it into a WebXR VR “graduation present” . I underestimated its massive scale and complexity, but managed to squish it in. https://vertexshader.substack.com/p/squishing-the-ryr1-protein-into-virtual
taught a p5js workshop at a middle school makerspace! It's amazing how naturally kids play, tinker, and explore
Fibonacci day!! Using Vogel placement and some ripple animation #p5js #genuary2026 #genuary3 #genuary #creativecode #generativeart
We extended the deadline to the PurposefulXR workshop at CHI this year -- there is still time to make a submission!
Know an XR researcher going to CHI this year? Please tell them that we're organizing a workshop on XR for social benefit, having deeper discussions and engagement around making purposeful XR with HCI research @sigchi
